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Half of them were seeking blessing from the mucus from his nose and his spittle (by rubbing it on their persons). They were climbing the roofs in order to see him. They also sought blessing by touching his robes and his slippers and his whip, until it was even said they looked for a blessing from his beasts, and the remains of their fodder and their dung.

• Source: Rattray, Robert Sutherland. Hausa folk lore: customs, proverbs, etc. In two volumes. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1913.
• Culture: Hausa
• Location: Africa